Jim Costa: “The leverage they have chosen to use in not buying U.S. agricultural products has really hurt farm country.”

Right now, though, the CAP program is overextended and underfunded.

I think that farmers, ranchers, dairymen and -women are critical in so many different ways, but they are also stewards of the environment.

The goals of the program are to restore and maintain endangered fish populations on the San Joaquin River and to reduce the adverse water supply impact on the Friant Division contractors.

I think that China is watching what we're doing in Ukraine just as Russia is trying to determine what is the resolve of the United States.